renegar
Portuguese, verb/ʁe.neˈɡa(ʁ)/
renegar is spelled R-E-N-E-G-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 49,356th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Renegar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to renounce an ideology” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “abandonar uma religião para seguir outra; descrer”.
What does renegar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to renounce an ideology
- 2
to disown (to refuse to acknowledge as one’s own)
- 3
to renege (to break a promise or commitment)
- 4
to reject or detest
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. abandonar uma religião para seguir outra; descrer 2. odiar 3. abandonar, rejeitar 4. trair
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of renegar
- renego first-person present singular
- reneguei first-person preterite singular
- renegado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- renegares infinitive second-person singular
- renegarmos first-person infinitive plural
- renegardes infinitive plural second-person
- renegarem infinitive plural third-person
- renegando gerund
- renegados masculine participle past
- renegada feminine participle past
- renegadas feminine participle past
- renegas indicative present second-person
- renega indicative present singular
- renegamos first-person indicative plural
- renegais indicative plural present
- renegam indicative plural present
- renegava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce renegar?
- Brazil /ʁe.neˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [he.neˈɡa(h)]
- /ʁe.neˈɡa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to renegar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is renegar in Portuguese?
renegar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).